Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-20
THE COMPANY CENSURED.
The Coron er's Jury Says the a.. Il. 1.
& T.. Road Is Responsible for The
Death of Chas. Ingets0n ut Moline.

q r. Road is Responsible for The
Death of Chas. Inyeis0n At Moline.
The coroners Jury in the case of Chas.
Ingclson, killed on the c., r. l. Il Z.
track at Moline yesterday, agreed upon
Il verdict last evening, after examining
large number of witnesses. A. S. Lund.
of Chicago, engineer of the-train, testi
fed that he had been an engineer for
seventeen years, and was at present rum
ming c., r. l. & P. engine No. SO, which
was drawing train No. ~ yesterday
morning They left Davenport at $50.
half an hour late; thought they were
running not to exceed ten or twelve
miles when the accident occurred. The
team approached from the tireman's side;
witness heard him call stop" twice. and
only had time 10 get hold of the air
brake when he saw the mules There
were ten cars in the train, and the last
stopped Just on the crossing where the
team was struck. The steam bell ringer
was in operation. The train went through
to Chicago with engine No. 2i3, No.
50 being disabled. Tue train including
the engine. was probably $50 feet long,
Fireman Frank Hirsch, also of Chi
eago. testified there were cars on a side
track north of the train, so that they
could not see the man and team till with
in about the length of two freight cars of
them. When witness had cried stop"
the engineer pnt on the air as quickly as
he could; though the wagon was struck
at about the front wheels,
Samuel Smith, of Moline, teamster
aged %, testified that he was coming
down Eleventh street to cross the tracks.
He saw the passenger train, and called to
Ingelson to stop. He partly stopped,
then started ahead again. and whipped
the mules. Witness saw the accident,
SAW the mules and the wood flying, but
did not see the man thrown. On crossing
the track, saw that Ingelson had been
thrown 100 to $50 feet eastward from the
place where the wagon was struck.
Thought the train was running about fif>
teen miles an hour.
Surgeon i. d. Dunn testified to ex
aiming the body in the baggage room
and finding two wounds, one on the light
side OF the head Just above the orbit of
! the right eve, the other below and back
/ of the right ear. There was hem0rrhage
| from the right ear, and, he thought, a
/ fracture at that point, near the base OF
the brain, on the right side. Thought
the man died from the conclusion of the
brain. Other conflicting witnesses
| were examined.
The testimony was rather contradictory
in some respects The train was half an
/ hour late The eneineerand switchman pu
the speed at twelve miles an hour, whilt
several others testified that it was between
fifteen and twenty miles an hour, twenty
miles being the opinion of the Majority
The verdict of the jury was damaging Il
the railroad company. 1t was:
That the deceased came to his dealt
by being struck by engine No. So at
tached to passenger train No. - on tn
c., X |. It P railway. while said trail
was crossing Eleventh street in the cit
of Moline. state of Illinois. on Ott 10
1887 From the evidence sdduced, tn,
Jury finds that the said train was runnin
at a greater rate of speed than is pre-
scribed by the ordinances of the city u
Moline regulating the rate of speed o
trains within said city, and we hold sal
c., r. & P. railway company respon
sibie for the death of Charles lngleson.
The jury was composed of L.
O'Neill foreman), E. l.. Eastman, job
Lindgren, II P. Pierce, c p Ryder an
+ } Baldwin.